IIRC, we're not going to get the competition you think.
IIRC, the new players will mostly be AWS (?), with coverage limited to
the major centers only - not national.
Some new entrants will be irrelevant locally / nationally.
I've stopped holding my breath. Vapourcarriers?
Insurance Squared Inc. wrote, On 05/23/2010 5:57 PM:
> I think the answer is wait a bit longer :).
>> We've got some competition coming wrt to wireless communications, so I
> would hope that data plans come way way down in cost over the next 1-2
> years. The rates they charge now, well, calling it expensive is being
> polite.
>> On 23/05/10 03:31 PM, unsolicited wrote:
>> So ... people, generally, is Android worth it? Raul, your impression
>> based on observing your son?
>>>> Where I'm coming from ...
>>>> I'm a Palm user (2nd Treo 680, after I dropped the first, LifeDrive
>> before that). I do not, and will not, use data - too expensive. I sync
>> the PIM data to Agendus (think korganizer for the Palm) - all Windows
>> based. Palm is dead. Current offering may be better, but is web/data
>> based, so I won't touch it. I don't expect much better out of HTC once
>> they mash it (Palm).
>>>> I've been WAITING for a Palm replacement for years. In vain. Is
>> Android it? [Significant Palm hardware problem to date - not
>> multi-threaded/tasking. Which is only usually a pain in that
>> misbehaving apps nuke the 'session' for everything, causing a reset,
>> etc. e.g. Notifications get hung up, other apps can't get their
>> notifications in, etc., because of the lack of multi-{whatever}.)
>>>> The other side of the coin - syncing (wi-fi | usb | bt - NOT DATA)?
>> With korganizer?
>>>> I keep eyeing Symbian as well, but have yet to be able to confirm what
>> it syncs with, let alone non-data wise. I popped over to the site
>> yesterday - it seems there's a LOT more hardware out there than the
>> one or two models I thought I only saw not long ago. I will never go
>> back to a non-physical keyboard device.
>>>> Impressions?
>>>> Raul Suarez wrote, On 05/23/2010 7:22 AM:
>>> :) The crowd that cannot wait (Lime my son) already has (for
>>> several weeks now) custom firmwares that have all the good stuff
>>> that's on 2.2
>>>>>> --- On Sat, 5/22/10, Lori Paniak <ldpaniak at fourpisolutions.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> From: Lori Paniak <ldpaniak at fourpisolutions.com> Subject:
>>>> [kwlug-disc] DailyTech - Android 2.2 Now Available for Nexus One
>>>> Users To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> Received:
>>>> Saturday, May 22, 2010, 8:21 PM For all the Nexus One owners in
>>>> the crowd who can't wait:
>>>>>>>>http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=18466